Discovering Your Students' Learning Potential

Workshop presented at #ICE16 by Patricia Duggan and Charlene Chausis

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How well do you really know your students? This workshop will provide an opportunity to focus on your students' learning potential, with attention to developmental benchmarks, brain-based learning, a growth mindset framework, and ways that technology can support differentiation.

• Brain Based Learning and Development
• Growth Mindset Framework
• Differentiated Instruction and Technology
• Motivation and Student Engagement

Recommended Books

• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
• Freedom to Fail: How do I foster risk-taking and innovation in my classroom? by Andrew K. Miller
• What's Math Got to Do with It?: How Teachers and Parents Can Transform Mathematics Learning and Inspire Success by Jo Boaler
• Mathematical Mindsets: Unleashing Students' Potential through Creative Math, Inspiring Messages and Innovative Teaching by Jo Boaler
• The Innovator's Mindset: Empower Learning, Unleash Talent, and Lead a Culture of Creativity by George Couros
• UnCommon Learning: Creating Schools That Work for Kids by Eric Sheninger
• The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults by Frances E. Jensen MD
• How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition (2000), National Academies Press (free PDF download available)
• Differentiation and the Brain, by David A. Sousa and Carol Ann Tomlinson
• Teaching with the Brain in Mind by Eric Jensen

Workshop Slides